Chapter 1 Vocabulary for World History
Terms
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- steppe
- less fertile land or sparse, dry grasslands
- anthropology
- studying the origins and development of people and their societies
- domesticate
- tame
- animism
- world was full of spirits and forces that might reside in animals, objects, or dreams
- artisan
- skilled craftworkers
- civilization
- a complex, highly organized social order
- culture
- the way of life of a society that is handed down from one generation to the next by learning and experience
- pictogram
- simple drawings that looked like the objects they represented
- geography
- the study of people, their environments, and the resources available to them
- empire
- a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
- cultural diffusion
- the spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another
- longitude
- measures distance east or west of the Prime Meridian
- technology
- the skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs
- glacier
- sheets of ice
- latitude
- measures distance north or south of the Equator
- archaeology
- study of past people and cultures
- city-state
- s political unit that included a city and its surrounding lands and villages
- artifact
- objects made by human beings
- nomad
- people who moved from place to place as they followed game animals and ripening fruit
- polytheistic
- believing in many gods
- prehistory
- the long period of time before people invented systems of writing
- scribe
- people who learned to read and write
- surplus
- extra
- historian
- study how people lived in the past